Despite the epidemic rebound, the deep crisis that the hospital is going through, suggesting a headache for the summer, will it force the authorities to reinstate the non-vaccinated caregivers, suspended for long months?
It is, in any case, what Sylviane Noël defends.
Senator (LR) of Haute-Savoie, who tabled a bill, mid-June, aimed at "
repealing the vaccination obligation for nursing staff and firefighters
".
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In force since last September, the latter has led to the suspension of a few thousand employees of health establishments.
As of June 13, Public Health France noted that only 78.4% of health professionals in these places had received a booster dose, a figure to which must be added those previously contaminated.
Today, no one knows the precise number of individuals suspended: the last assessment, at the end of last year, reported 15,000 people, but it has undoubtedly fallen since and does not make it possible to clearly distinguish the administrative from the professionals. health.
In mid-June, the FHF judged, in an investigation, that there was “no pool of professionals to seek” among these agents and estimated their number between “4000 to 5000” professionals, caregivers and non-caregivers combined.
That is “0.3% of the total of the agents of the establishments”.
A drop of water, then.
An explosive summer
Nevertheless: "
Maintaining this discriminatory measure will deal a fatal and irreversible blow to our already terribly tested health system
", protests the explanatory memorandum of the text.
"
We are now in a situation of shortage such that we can no longer afford the luxury of doing without the slightest caregiver
", warns Sylviane Noël.
In
Le Figaro
, the senator makes it clear that she does not “
question the usefulness of the vaccine as a protector against serious forms
” and that she is not “
antivax
”.
The shield against transmissibility offered by the successive doses remains fragile, nuance the chosen one.
Above all, the catastrophic state of the hospital makes it necessary to rethink this subject:
we are in the process of bringing all our health structures to their knees […].
In some states, such as the United States or Canada, this vaccination obligation has been lifted.
Will Emmanuel Macron be the only one on this planet to persist in this error and to punish these personnel who have exercised their free will?
“, annoys the senator.
"
It's not just the Covid
", adds the representative of Haute-Savoie, who is worried about a summer that promises to be explosive: "
just on June 20, there are already shortages of caregivers in everything is fine, as the summer holidays arrive and there are strong tourist flows.
How are we going to do ?
“, she pretends to wonder.
In the longer term, Sylviane Noël also fears that these suspensions risk pushing a few thousand caregivers to leave the hospital.
What reinforce tensions already crushing.
A simplified passage by the new National Assembly
Asked about the path of reintegration of non-vaccinated caregivers, the Ministry of Health has not yet come back to us.
A few days after the presidential election, the executive had cautiously opened the door to this possibility: Olivier Véran had announced to seize the HAS on this question and Emmanuel Macron had established a correlation between the evolution of the epidemic and the return of these personnel.
"
When we are no longer in the acute phase [of the epidemic, editor's note], we will do it
", he then explained, at the beginning of May.
Since then, the blur remains.
For their part, the professionals are divided.
The altogether small number of personnel concerned will not change the situation, some believe.
“
Bringing unvaccinated people back will help us […] but it won't save everything.
It would make misery a little less painful
, ”sighed Fabien Paris, from the Collectif inter-urgences.
For its part, the Association of Emergency Physicians of France (Amuf) sees this as a solution, certainly limited, but all the same essential, given the disastrous state of the teams which are shrinking to a trickle: "
We are in full storm, everyone has to come on deck
, ”said its president, Patrick Pelloux, in the columns of Ouest-France.
Sylviane Noël, for her part, remains convinced that her proposal can win the support of Parliament.
“
The new configuration [in the Assembly] forces the executive to have to deal with the opposition again
,” she notes.
However, in the past, Marine Le Pen, on the RN side, and Jean-Luc Mélenchon, on the LFI side, had both come out in favor of reinstating the non-vaccinated in white coats.
Enough to suggest that such a bill could benefit from a green light from the deputies.
The bill, co-signed with fifteen LR and centrist senators, must be studied by the Economic Affairs Committee.
Its author intends to put it on the agenda quickly, by convincing the presidency of the Senate.
The text does not promise, for the moment, to give back to the personnel concerned their pay suspended for several months.
“
We are already fighting for their reintegration, justifies Sylviane Noël.
But the least we can do is that they can get their wages unduly lost
”.
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